Working for Peace...

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The military and the monetary,
they use the media as an intermediary,
determined to keep the citizens secondary.
They make so many decisions that are arbitrary.

We’re standing behind a commander in chief
who was standing under a spotlight and shaking like a leaf,
but the ship-the state- had landed on an economic reef,
so we knew he was going to bring us messages of grief.
[...]
The Military and the Monetary,
they get together whenever they think it's necessary.
War in the desert sometimes sure is scary,
but they beamed out the war to all their subsidiaries.
Tried to make So Damn Insane a worthy adversary,
keeping the citizens secondary,
scaring old folks into coronaries.
[...]
The Military and the Monetary,
from thousands of miles in a Saudi Arabian sanctuary,
kept us all wondering if all of this was really truly necessary.

We've got to work for Peace,
Peace ain't coming this way.
If we only work for Peace,
If everyone believed in Peace the way they say they do,
we'd have Peace.

The only thing wrong with Peace
is that you can't make no money from it.

The Military and the Monetary,
they get together whenever they think it's necessary,
hey've turned our brothers and sisters into mercenaries,
they are turning the planet into a cemetery.

Got to work for Peace,
Peace ain't coming this way.

We should not allow ourselves to be misled
by talk of entering a time of Peace.
Peace is not the absence of war,
it is the absence of the rumours of war
and the threats of war
and the preparation for war.

Peace is not the absence of war,
it is the time when we will all bring ourselves closer to each other,
closer to building a structure that is unique within ourselves
because we have finally come to Peace within ourselves.
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Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something!
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Gil Scott Heron, "Work for Peace" (excerpts)